SMART TALK. SHORTCUTS.

"Few comforts are more alluring for a woman than the rich...

November 23, 1997|By Leigh Behrens.

"Few comforts are more alluring for a woman than the rich, intimate territory of women's talk. A woman friend will say, `You are not alone. I have felt that too. This is what happened to me.' Home, in other words."

--writer Elsa Walsh, in "The Kinship of Women: A Celebration of Enduring Friendship" (Andrews and McMeel, $14.95) by Pat Ross

"I pray for a wife -- every day. I'm lonely."

--Jim Bakker, divorced since 1992 from Tammy Faye Messner, in the New York Times, on what he prays for most

"In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is."